(Grace) Shrimp vs lizard 2-9-0

[Oiguana2701]

lizard FRA

lizard FRA

Beardo fra

These arguments are pretty silly. The dragon is gonna have to fight something twice as big as it in its home turf while it's evolved to hunt smaller, soft prey which means it will be completely unable to bite past its shell (which makes the poison useless, if we're even gonna assume it'd work) whereas the Anomalocaris is essentially made to kill things such as the lizard. The argument is what, that it's gonna overpower and drag out something twice its size that's better adapted to swimming? How?

Anomalocaris wins without much issue.

Pogonas can reach 40 to 60 cm in length, while Anomalocaris would normally get to around 38 cm (Not counting the frontal limbs) (Obviously, some specimens are going to be bigger than this, and some Beardies are gonna be smaller than that), so the size difference isn't that big, although I agree on the other arguments

Let’s go the absolute gigachad anomalocaris gets arguments

Funny shrimp fra

Anyways, all counted

 

[Oiguana2701]

This can be added now

 

[Armorchompy]

nobody's even bothered responding to my arguments tho

 

[CrackerVolley]

The only arguement that still stands for the shrimp is the exoskeleton, since previously mentioned Beardos are pretty good swimmers and could just drag it out of the water and causing it to suffacate. It might also be able to bite down on the eyes, maybe. Are those defended by the shell?

 

[Oiguana2701]

The only arguement that still stands for the shrimp is the exoskeleton, since previously mentioned Beardos are pretty good swimmers and could just drag it out of the water and causing it to suffacate. It might also be able to bite down on the eyes, maybe. Are those defended by the shell?

Also, Anomalocaris were much smaller than 1 meter, at least normally

 

[Armorchompy]

The only arguement that still stands for the shrimp is the exoskeleton, since previously mentioned

.. Yeah I think it's a pretty noteworthy thing if one of the combatants is literally incapable of directly hurting the other at all I don't know why you frame it like it's some minor thing.

Beardos are pretty good swimmers

Being able to move well underwater doesn't necessarily mean you can easily push around something as big as you are, especially while it's gonna be biting at you

and could just drag it out of the water and causing it to suffacate. It might also be able to bite down on the eyes, maybe. Are those defended by the shell?

Is it smart enough to do that, though? Because that's not something most reptiles would ever think to do, only very few animals are smart enough to think of that. Not to mention the Anomalocaris has a much simpler wincon of "just bite the dude enough"

Also, Anomalocaris were much smaller than 1 meter, at least normally

It does seem like 1 meter was just a mistake made by earlier studies, apparently they reached up to 38 cm (excluding front appendages and tail so quite a bit bigger in practice)

 

[King_Dom470]

Is it smart enough to do that, though? Because that's not something most reptiles would ever think to do, only very few animals are smart enough to think of that.

Beardies are actually shockingly intelligent for a reptile so it’s not crazy to me that it could see that the water isn’t a good place for it and either try to bait it to come out of the water or do what we’ve already said via dragging it out.

 

[King_Dom470]

It does seem like 1 meter was just a mistake made by earlier studies, apparently they reached up to 38 cm (excluding front appendages and tail so quite a bit bigger in practice)

Also the largest beardie ever (which is what’s being used) was 71.12 cm which is a behemoth when compared to the shrimps measly 38 which makes it even more plausible it could pull it out of the water

 

[Armorchompy]

Eh, I looked into it a bit but while you're right that it could learn to do that overtime, I don't think it'd have the smarts to figure that out in a fight to the death with no prior experience, that's like, nearly human-level improv.

Also the largest beardie ever (which is what’s being used) was 71.12 cm which is a behemoth when compared to the shrimps measly 38 which makes it even more plausible it could pull it out of the water

this is fair, though.